Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] for [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had butterflies inside , nerving herself for the questions she was about to ask . |
| 2 | The first people to leave went off hastily , while others lingered , girding themselves for the streets . |
| 3 | Do we think of the young literary man as choosing , in a sense , to be a student of literature and to turn his energies to nothing — except perhaps earning his bread — to nothing except fitting himself for the poems we are going to write , or do we think of poetry as in a sense the bi-product of a life seriously dedicated to other matters ? |
| 4 | Kruger collected 7,582 points at Sheffield , where Brannen decided to withdraw after eight events , saving himself for a multi-events meeting at Stoke this week , where he hopes to battle his way to the top of the rankings . |
| 5 | He 's writing something for the films , he says . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've got the school Nativity play , ’ said George , ‘ and Miss Thorne is already producing something for the Women 's Guild . ’ |
| 7 | Distillery played with great spirit but Crusaders must be kicking themselves for the chances they threw away . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , where do you want to start ? ’ she asked , bracing herself for the questions to come . |
| 9 | Mm , I 'll go back with him and he 'll wear his bloody shoes when I go back with him , how much they charging you for the repairs ? |
| 10 | Now , he wanted Terry to tell the US government to start doing something for the hostages . |
| 11 | Well this is alright , but we 're only doing it for the beneficiaries int you ? |
| 12 | I 'm … er … afraid I did n't get round to doing anything for the understudies . ’ |
| 13 | There may in fact be some differences in these time intervals and in other pathogenetic factors between Kock pouches and pelvic pouches , but in view of the general clinical similarities between the RP syndromes in these two forms of pouch ( Table V ) , we have felt justified in combining them for the purposes of our analysis . |
| 14 | ‘ But if he is n't going to bother , I do n't think it 's fair to the other players to keep choosing him for the reserves . |
| 15 | Maurice Ododo is the catechist at Aluor mission and every day was busy going near and far training and teaching the Christians , preparing them for the Sacraments and instructing catechumens . |
| 16 | In these pre-Cubist paintings of 1907 and 1908 it is as if Picasso were preparing himself for the difficulties involved in creating a new style by taking stock afresh of some of the basic problems inherent in all painting since the invention of illusionistic perspective . |
| 17 | With a sense of impending doom heavy on her shoulders , she went up to their shared suite to have a long , relaxing shower before preparing herself for the fireworks that would inevitably , as night overtook day , follow . |
| 18 | Rather like the English WILL O'THE WISP , this light bobs at eye level and invariably presages death or mishap to any traveller who follows it , mistaking it for the lights of a welcoming farmhouse . |
| 19 | He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ . |